Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1882 — HANGING GROVE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

HANGING GROVE ITEMS.

Simon Phillips cried Mr. Mcßride’s sale, and we must say he’sa “rattler.” Feb. 9. 1882. COSMOS. CARPENTER TOWNSHIP ITEMS, “Frailty, thy name is woman!” A slate purchased fifty years ago is still in use at the Green school house. Who can beat it? James Patton, at present a student nt law in Kentland, will start for Dakota, in about two weeks. In accordance with anew law which provides that not more than three hundred and fifty votescan be polled at any one precinct, Carpenter township has been divided on the range line into two such voting districts.

The Literary Society at No. 4 was well .attended last Friday evening.— Tho‘question: Resolved, That man makes his owu destiny ,—was discuss ed with more than usual animation. The judges decided with Shakspeare: ‘•There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will." J. H. Snoddy has sold his farm to Hon. Fred. Hoover, and will return to bis old home, Edinburgh, Indiana, at an early date. "Stand not upon the order of going. But go at once.”—Shakspeare. Captain James A. Burnham, acting in the capacity of Hup’t Nowels, who is unavoidably detained at home, and Trustee Henkle visited oui - schools last week. Of the ten schools they report nine at work. The tenth one is under the supervision of a high priced teaeher of long experience.— Power is not unfrequently deaf o the voice of exnerience. A little boy of fouiteen summers, whose mother died from the bite of a rattle snake, and whose father perished in a prison ceil, which he, himself, set on fire, is in attendance at the Eek school. He may well exclaim : “ ,Vheu sorrows come, they come not single spies But in Battalions!”

REMINGTONIAN.